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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Former teacher Dorna paid in $82K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.61M in retirement

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Former teacher George Dorna, who retired in December 2018, saved $81,911 toward a pension over 17 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Dorna would collect as much as $1.61 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Dorna received $33,753 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Dorna will have already received $104,328 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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